blue-jacket

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In the naval service, a sailor as distinguished from a marine: so called from the color of his jacket.

n. A name given in the United States to hymenopterous insects of the family Sphegidæ. The predominant color is blue. The best-known are the Pelopœus cœruleus, a northern species, and the Chlorion cyaneum, whose range is more to the south. Both are known under the collective name of mud-daubers. See cuts under Ammophila, digger-wasp, and mud-dauber.

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Examples

Perhaps that is why no blue-jacket, sober or drunk, was ever repulsed from the door of the Bilkins mansion.

Amongst the men, two blue-jackets were killed outright, as well as Phillips, the ship's carpenter of the _Hankow Lin_; while one blue-jacket was wounded severely, and two slightly, as well as another of the ship's regular hands.

This invitation Jupp gladly accepted in the same spirit in which it was given; and then, with another hearty "good-night" from the vicar, to which he responded by touching his cap and giving a salute in regular blue-jacket fashion, he went on his way back to the little railway - station beyond the village where Master Teddy had first made his acquaintance -- much to their mutual benefit as things now looked!